Travel Grant Recipients of 2011
| Name | Host Lab | Dissertation Topic |
| Janina Preuss | Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute, University of San Diego, USA | High-throughput screening of inhibitors against human and Plasmodium falciparum glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase |
| Hector A. Cabrera Fuentes | Center for Cardiovascular Research, University of Hawaii, USA |
Pathophysiological role of extracellular RNA in ischemia-reperfusion injury and new therapeutic modalities using RNase |
| Esmaeil Kamal | CHUM-Hospital Notre-Dame, University of Montreal, Canada |
Evaluation of the fibroblast growth factor receptor 2 in experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis and its possible role in multiple sclerosis (MS) |
| Sandy König | Neuroimmunology Lab, McGill Universtiy of Montreal, Canada |
Age-dependent effects of the PPAR agonist rosiglitazone on molecular mechanisms for the induction of inflammatory mediators and brain derived sickness responses in rats |
| Miguel Rojas | Arrhenius Lab, University of Stockholm, Sweden |
Deciphering the molecular basis of the specificity of protein-carbohydrate interactions by statistical analyses of 3D structural data from the Protein Data Bank (PDB) |
| Jutta Schlegel | Telethon Institute for Genetics and Medicine (TIGEM) Napoli, Italy |
Development and characterization of a humanized disease-model for X-linked RP in mice due to a point mutation in the RPGR-gene |
| Viola Spamer | Department of Entomology, University of Los Angeles, USA |
Shifts in plant gene expression and corresponding phloemsap components during trilateral interaction of barley (Hordeum vulgare), aphid species Rhopalosiphum padi and the aphid- transmitted barley yellow dwarf virus (BYDV) |
| Daniel Soetkamp | National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, Bethesda, Washington, USA |
Characterization of the Import and Function of Connexin 43 (Cx43)in Mitochondria |
| Wei Fan | National Institute of Environmental Health Science, North Carolina, USA | Role of peroxisomes in bone remodelling and the pathogenesis of osteoporosis |
| Franziska Mohring | Institute of Pharmaceutical Science, King's College, London, Great Britain |
Characterization of antiparasitic peptides from insects |
| Yaser Dezhkam | Department of Clinical Animal Science, Oslo, Norway |
Formation and transport of estrone sulfate in the porcine testicular-epididymal com-partment and its function as a precursor of bioactive estrogens |
| Edmilson Ferreira de Oliveira Filho | Department of Infectious and Parasitic Diseases, University of Liège, Belgium |
Hepatitis E Virus: Detection and Molecular Characterization |